By Sophie
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdG5pO1d4TI&feature=emb_logo
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A tragedy can affect a whole community
and it can be difficult for that community to move on and recover.
But Paradise Cove has not only
recovered. It is thriving.
It opens with someone warming up in order to give a speech. It’s a beautiful speech in a beautiful voice. It’s warm. It’s positive. It’s inspiring.
But we only see the person’s mouth. In
other words, we’re not seeing the full picture.
Or not yet.
Paradise Cove is a 13-minute play written by Jordan Forse.
It’s fascinating and unsettling at the same time. Everything sounds really
positive and there are moments of normality which seem very relatable, but
there is a definite sense that something is at least slightly off-kilter.
Emilie Largier echoes this in her direction, with the extreme close-up at the
beginning and later some split-screen effects.
The main character, Suzie, is played
by two people. Nancy Fox portrays her mind and acts as a sort of narrator,
looking back over the past and commenting almost defiantly on the action,
disturbing but surprisingly charismatic. Ellen Larson plays Suzie’s more
uncertain body, acting out the situation Suzie Mind is describing. The decision
to split them is dramatically interesting. They do seem like two different
people. A Before and an After, perhaps.
Elaine McAdam isn’t properly seen, but
with her voice alone, you know what you need to know about both her characters,
the Principal Magistrate and the Enforcement Officer.
This is an intriguing film and I am
left with the nagging feeling that I might have missed the point completely,
but it’s fascinating to watch.
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